Your so Vain…

“knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. 1Pe1.18

We are told that Christ came to redeem us from “aimless conduct,” here so translated. Imagine the creative powers that must lie in each person made in the image of God. How very sad, that much of our creative power is spent in useless and empty things. The word is also translated, “vain,” that which is devoid of purpose and therefore has no real use or value.
The road to misery is as much traveled by those who have squandered and wasted life, as by those who have murdered it. This is one reason why our enemy tempts some to destructive behavior and others with trivial and empty pastimes. Much of life is lost to countless and mindless hours before a television, window shopping or playing solitaire. This is not to say of course, that each of these activities cannot be redeemed into something constructive, but most of the time they are a waste of time. Wasted moments melt into wasted days and before we realize it, all that remains is a wasted life. One can almost hear the distant echo of demons, singing around each casket, “Your so vain, you probably thought this song was about you.”
If each of us lived, truly lived with that imprint of divine purpose, I think perhaps we would have found a cure for cancer, or aids or hunger, long ago. If our creative energies where turned away from vanities and toward lasting purpose there would be no measuring of the good that would come. When one lives for the Glory, even our recreations would re-create, play as much as work would have value and purpose. When we live for the Glory even the mundane can be raised up into noble purposes. Christ did not come to give us a stuffy religion. He came to infect us with life, an abundant life, overflowing with creative energy. As He has redeemed us, so let us redeem the time. 4/24/07 ts